{"id":74946,"date":"2014-12-18T09:13:37","date_gmt":"2014-12-18T09:13:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=74946"},"modified":"2014-12-19T06:26:06","modified_gmt":"2014-12-19T06:26:06","slug":"british-airways-profits-ebola-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2014\/12\/british-airways-profits-ebola-crisis\/","title":{"rendered":"British Airways profits in \u2018Ebola crisis\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"
British Airways Ghana has revealed that 2014 has been a \u201cgood year\u201d for the airline in terms of profitability and doing business on the Accra-London route.<\/p>\n
This was amidst the outbreak of the deadly Ebola disease which took a heavy toll on the airline industry across the West Africa sub region.<\/p>\n
[contextly_sidebar id=”h81NNFbHPmiXqCL2ZXkU9VfAOo0otFc1″]The Ebola disease that hit Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea the hardest, forced airlines including British Airways to cancel flights to these countries indefinitely.<\/p>\n
As at August 2014, Air C\u00f4te d\u2019Ivoire, Nigeria\u2019s Arik Air, Togo\u2019s ASKY Airlines, Emirates Airlines and Kenya Airways had all cancelled a combined 76 scheduled flights to Guinea, 70 to Liberia and 70 to Sierra Leone.<\/p>\n
According to the British Airways Commercial Manager for Ghana Moran Birger, \u201cI can\u2019t say it affected out market here. We actually increased the number of seats we sold, so obviously we have a very strong passion and commitment to this market [Ghana] we have been serving for 77 years.\u201d<\/p>\n